Quotes by : Mike Jay

Haslam leaves us in no doubt what we are supposed to make of Matthews' mental world: this is gibberish....

Come the revolution, however, mesmerism was reconceived once more. From its beginnings many had seen....

The Bedlam that greeted James Tilly Matthews, then, was not so much a baroque spectacle of depravity....

The French revolution, he concluded, had not produced any new principles of truths, merely a mass of....

The Air Loom, if Matthews revealed its existence under questioning, would now be recognised immediately....

Up to this point, it was rare for the mad to be distinguished from the poor, the homeless, the indigent,....

At Bow Street Magistrates' Court the essential facts were established. The man's name was James Tilly....

We think of 1789 as the date of the French Revolution, and the storming of the Bastille as its defining....

If history is written by the victors, conspiracy theory is typically written by the losers, and there....

The Air Loom, for all its florid craziness, can be seen to have a function and a rationale: as a miraculous,....